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		5e92cb50239222b on Nov 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work And suffer a 100 MB runtime? If anything, Rust with refcounts for everything is much closer to Swift.

mrfox321 on Nov 13, 2021 [–]

Ah didnt realize swift has no runtime. Thanks!

pjmlp on Nov 13, 2021 | | [–]

Every language has a runtime, it is what supports the basic language infrastructure, including Swift.

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/Runtime.md

ssokolow on Nov 13, 2021 | | [–]

As I remember, it uses an evolution of Objective-C's Automatic Reference Counting feature.

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